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The author said that this year’s World Mental Health Day reaffirmed the expertise and leadership of people with lived experience of mental health challenges. They called for renewed commitment to mental health, efforts to remove stigma, and systems grounded in dignity and rights for all.

Patrick Kabengele relayed remarks attributed to Finance Minister Doudou Fwamba, stating that political cabinets were temporary, while the public administration ensured the continuity of the State. He indicated that it preserved institutional memory, technical expertise, and mastery of procedures, and that in its absence, government changes risked causing a costly and paralyzing loss of organizational memory. #Politique #AdministrationPublique #État (translated)

The author of the message stated that a judicial expert had received double the amount of his fees and refused to refund the sum. He added that the client was not supposed to pay the expert directly, while saying he had the bank statement showing a debit in favor of the expert. The message also mentioned RTL France and the hashtag #cpva. #justice #expertise #avocat #FR (translated)

Christine Lavarde, senator from Hauts-de-Seine and general rapporteur for the budget in the Senate, is distinguished by her technocratic expertise and conservative commitment, while being perceived as not feminist at all and having a background as a former triathlete. #ChristineLavarde #Budget #Sénat (translated)

"Especially employees with particularly sensitive security-relevant knowledge can come into the focus of foreign powers that use them as instruments of espionage or manipulation." CDU security politician Roderich Kiesewetter also spoke of such "consultant networks," in which former members of the public service often promote their expertise and contacts after the end of their active service. #Geheimdienst #Sicherheitspolitik #Spionage (translated)

Benjamin Lucas questioned BFMTV about the invitation of Louis Sarkozy. He wondered if it was related to his experience as a high school student in very expensive private institutions in the United States or to his proximity to a person convicted by the justice system, who had called for using a pressure washer against the youth from disadvantaged neighborhoods. #Politique #Éducation #Société (translated)

CIVICO 33 — “ORTA NOVA SOUND LAB”: FROM CAPITANATA TO “BROADWAYWORLD”, THE “COMMUNITY BAND” PROJECT CONQUERS NEW YORK SOURCE: https://www.civico93.it/orta-nova-sound-laab-dalla-capitanata-a-broadwayworld-il-progetto-banda-di-comunita-conquista-new-york/ The social laboratory promoted by ANBG and the Ministry of Culture has landed on the world’s largest theatre network, thanks to the article co-authored by Chris Rabinowitz and the Orta Nova-born author Luciano Magaldi Sardella. There is a brass thread linking Piazza Mario Frasca to Broadway. It is called “Orta Nova Sound Lab” — the Community and Social Regeneration Band through Music — the project officially presented on 21 September last at the C-Lab MAO FM 19.77 of brothers Luca and Erminio Ferrandina, which is enjoying unprecedented media coverage for a band-cultural initiative born in the Province of Foggia. Its journalistic success was sealed on 28 September last by its arrival on BroadwayWorld, the world’s most authoritative portal dedicated to theatre and live performance, based in New York with over 1.5 million global monthly visits. A result that was by no means a foregone conclusion, which projects a story from the Apulian periphery into the international cultural news circuit. The article, entitled Orta Nova Sound Lab Launches Youth Community Band in Southern Italy, is jointly by-lined by New York editor Chris Rabinowitz, journalist for the American publication, and his Italian co-author Luciano Magaldi Sardella, an international author originally from Orta Nova, engineer, academic journalist, and researcher active between Italy and abroad. The dual Italo-American by-line symbolises how a “local good practice” can become global news when it is recounted with expertise and rootedness. The Project: The Band as Social Regeneration “Orta Nova Sound Lab” is promoted by the Associazione Nazionale Bande da Giro (ANBG), chaired by Benedetto Grillo, and was admitted for funding under the public call of the Ministry of Culture pursuant to Director General Decree of 7 April 2026, reg. no. 149, aimed at the “Strengthening of research activities and dissemination of musical practices in peripheries and in areas of high social vulnerability”. It is realized with the support of the Comune di Orta Nova and with the collaboration of a solid civic network: A.P.S. MAO FM 19.77, the Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “A. Olivetti”, the Istituto Comprensivo “Sandro Pertini”, the Music Art association, and the C.I.S.A. of Foggia. As BroadwayWorld itself emphasised, this is the first initiative in Italy to reinterpret the distinctive tradition of touring bands (bande da giro) and youth orchestras within a ministerial call dedicated to urban peripheries and social vulnerability. A model that dialogues explicitly with the spirit of the so-called “Caivano Decree” (Law Decree 123/2023) for combating youth distress, educational poverty, and juvenile crime. The idea, in its disarming simplicity, was summarised by the project director for ANBG, Antonella Spagnoletti: “The band is aggregation! The band is cohesion. Bringing these youngsters together, educating them, and enabling them to live in a manner different from the social-media world is among the primary objectives of our association.” A concept reiterated by the Mayor of Orta Nova, Eng. Domenico Di Vito: “This is an important project that can certainly make a difference compared with the past, because all the ingredients are there to network the entire cultural and social world that exists in Orta Nova and that must be valorised. The administration’s commitment is to ensure sustainability, structure, and continuity over time.” Taking part in the launch press conference, moderated by journalist Giuseppe Di Bisceglie, in addition to President Grillo, Director Spagnoletti, and Mayor Di Vito, were Regional Councillor Grazia Maria Starace, Councillor for relations with the third sector Sebastiano Battista, Councillor for Culture Vittoria Mastrogiacomo, and educational professor Alfredo Coppola, contact person for the Olivetti Institute. Why the Story Went International The “Orta Nova Sound Lab” band project demonstrates that when a project has anti-mafia roots, pedagogical value, and a credible institutional network, the press responds. From local and national titles such as Cassa Armonica, Ansa Puglia, TGNorba, Corriere della Sera Bari, RaiNews TGR Puglia, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, Amica9TV, Brindisi In, Blasting News Italia, TRM Network, Secolo XIX, FoggiaToday, PlayNews24, Stato Quotidiano, and many others, which thoroughly documented the conference, the coverage reached “Broadway World”, which read the Orta Nova experience as a “social laboratory” capable of answering the mafia with music. This change of scale derives from joint work and also from the liaison work carried out by Luciano Magaldi Sardella, who, together with New York editor Chris Rabinowitz, succeeded in translating for an Anglophone audience the profound meaning of a town band which, in Apulia, is not folklore, but a civil garrison, a concrete alternative to the screen and to social disintegration. In a South often narrated only for its emergencies, Orta Nova chooses to be recounted for its capacity to generate community. And this time, the news has travelled around the world, starting from a piazza in the Daunia. The Calendar The pathway, which is entirely free of charge, provides instrumental workshops for wind and percussion, ensemble music lessons, and collective rehearsals with qualified teachers and conductors, open to aspiring musicians, families, schools, and citizens. The programme that has attracted the attention of the national and now international press is structured as follows: October 2026: parade of marching bands through the streets and public spaces of Orta Nova, to recover the historic value of the band as a popular and identity-based expression. November–December 2026: high-profile concert season with the Gran Concerto Bandistico di Conversano and the Gran Concerto Bandistico “Biagio Abbate” Città di Bisceglie, an artistic training ground for young pupils. Inclusion Focus: a special evening dedicated to women in music with the Orchestra Note di Puglia, an ensemble composed entirely of professional women musicians, to reinforce the values of equal opportunities. January 2027: first official concert of the newborn Community Band of Orta Nova, a foundational act and public restitution of the work accomplished. (translated)

Hester Bais wrote that in March 2023 she had gifted her book *Worst Bank Scenario* to current and former members of the House of Representatives, all members of the Senate, and a large part of the cabinet. In the book, she described her experiences as a lawyer and whistleblower regarding what she called the largest banking and pension fraud ever. She stated that she had not received any substantive response. Bais claimed that she was one of the few specialists in the Netherlands with legal and operational knowledge of central securities clearing, derivatives clearing, and collateral management. She said she had worked for years at ING, the Authority for the Financial Markets, Euronext, LCH, Euroclear, and Hogan Lovells. According to her, that experience had enabled her to expose extensive fraud involving collateral. She wrote that the Netherlands needed her expertise in a European financial sector where investment banks, according to her, called the shots and used taxpayer money and pension assets for their own liquidity purposes. According to Bais, the Authority for the Financial Markets ignored her whistleblower reports. She also said that she had become persona non grata in her field. She mentioned Sander Dekker from the VVD as the chairman of the supervisory board and wrote that he looked away, just like his predecessors Paul Rosenmöller and Martin van Rijn. #klokkenluider #advocaat #RedDeRechtstaat #klokkenluider #advocaat #fraude (translated)

Why did Wolfram Weimer have three bookstores nominated for the Bookstore Prize checked by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution? He justified this with the expertise of his officials. Documents now show: His specialist department recommended awarding all bookstores. https://t.co/NMdJtGXeJl #Buchhandlungspreis #Verfassungsschutz #Literatur #DE (translated)

Das Bundesprogramm „Demokratie leben!“ ist hier der Lehrfall – eingeführt unter der CDU-Kanzlerin Merkel. Aus einem zeitlich begrenzten Topf wurde eine Dauerstruktur. Öffentliches Geld schafft Stellen, Expertise, Netzwerke und Zugang. Wer jahrelang alimentiert wird, wird dann #DemokratieLeben #Bundesprogramm #ÖffentlicheGelder #DE

To know whether “superintelligent” AIs are about to kill us all, you need more than technical expertise in AI. You also need a sophisticated understanding of concepts like “intelligence,” “intentionality,” and “goals.” Better still, you need an evolutionary understanding of how #AI #Superintelligence #Philosophy #Therearenospecificcountryreferencesinthetweetprovided.Therefore #theansweris:

À l'approche de l'élection présidentielle, des hauts fonctionnaires, appelés Phrygiens, Horaces ou Gracques, conseillent discrètement divers candidats, en apportant leur expertise tout en préservant leur anonymat et en s'assurant de la loyauté à l'État. #ÉlectionPrésidentielle #HautsFonctionnaires #FranceInsoumise

Former US intelligence chief Avril Haines: ‘Trump trusts his gut more than the expertise’ https://t.co/hfVPTmeFwS "L'ex capo dell'intelligence statunitense Avril Haines: «Trump si fida più del suo istinto che della competenza»" così l'esperta di sicurezza, intervistata dal https://t.co/svOaEwzrkL #Trump #AvrilHaines #Intelligence #US

Vivement que Pape Thiaw puisse, à son tour, prendre les rênes d’une sélection nationale sur le continent et que d’autres techniciens sénégalais puissent également s’exporter, réussir et faire rayonner l’expertise nationale au-delà de nos frontières, comme le font aujourd’hui Aliou Cissé avec l’Angola et Youssouph Dabo avec la Libye, qui essaient de remettre leurs équipes sur les bons rails. Notre football ne doit pas seulement exporter des joueurs, il doit aussi être capable d’exporter un nombre important d’entraîneurs, de techniciens, de managers administratifs et, plus largement, le savoir-faire. #Football #Sénégal #Expertise

‼️🇫🇷 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 — La Cour de cassation REJETTE le pourvoi déposé contre la décision déclarant pénalement irresponsable Mohamed L., le meurtrier d’Alban Gervaise, médecin militaire et père de trois enfants ÉGORGÉ devant une école catholique à Marseille en 2022. Mohamed L. avait attaqué Alban Gervaise à coups de couteau, le frappant à une dizaine de reprises, notamment à la gorge. Trois expertises psychiatriques ont conclu à une abolition de son discernement au moment des faits, évoquant une « bouffée délirante aiguë ». Interné en psychiatrie en juin 2025, Mohamed L. est désormais autorisé à RENTRER CHEZ LUI le soir et le week-end depuis juin dernier, son hospitalisation ayant été allégée. Aucune mesure d’éloignement de la famille de la victime n’a été prononcée. Christelle Gervaise, veuve de la victime, contestait notamment l’absence de prise en compte de la consommation de cannabis du meurtrier et demandait une évolution de la loi sur l’irresponsabilité pénale. La Cour de cassation a également REFUSÉ de transmettre sa question prioritaire de constitutionnalité au Conseil constitutionnel. (Source : Le Figaro) #Justice #Droit #France